ISLAMABAD: The United States Navy’s guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey visited Karachi Port, Pakistan Navy’s media wing said on Thursday...
It said the visit by the carrier deployed to Fifth Fleet was part of the cooperation between the navies of the two countries for “safe and secure maritime environment in the region”...
KARACHI: On any given day one hears, for the umpteenth time, of a new housing society being launched, with state-of- the-art facilities, a lucrative geographical location, and the very best in construction...
“A building can last for decades, and the land underneath it is practically indestructible...
NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Friday convicted 12 of planning blasts that ripped through Mumbai commuter trains in 2006, killing more than 180 people and wounding hundreds...
"I want the strictest possible punishment for them,” prosecution lawyer Raja Thakare told AFP by phone...
More than 50 people, including several religious leaders, were killed and over 100 others were wounded in the massive bombing that ripped through a congregation of Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH) at Nishtar Park in April 2006...
Sultan Mahmood alias Saifullah, Mufti Zakir Hussain Siddiqui, Mohammad Amin, alias Khalid Shaheen, and Rehmatullah, said to be associated with the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, were held for their alleged involvement in...
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday overturned the death sentence awarded to a murder convict by a Pakpattan trial court in 2006, converting the sentence into life imprisonment...
The trial court had handed Ghulam Mustafa a death sentence over a decade ago for murdering his paternal uncle and the uncle's five children...
MULTAN: An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday directed the Cantonment SHO to submit a report on a petition seeking registration of a case against former officials of PIA and CAA for their alleged negligence in the Fokker crash incident in 2006...
Shahbaz Ali Khan Gurmani, in a petition filed through his counsel Fahim Akhtar Gill, stated that the plane (registration No F-27, AP-BAL) had been declared a flying coffin...
FRANKFURT: In a political feud that could tarnish the reputation of Franz Beckenbauer, the former president of the German football federation has accused 2006 World Cup officials of knowing about a questionable payment to FIFA as early as 2002...
Niersbach has said he first heard of the payment this year and learned the details only last week from Beckenbauer, the former Germany great who was the president of the 2006 organising...
BERLIN: The German FA (DFB) is set to answer corruption allegations on Friday as accusations the 2006 World Cup was “bought “threaten to give FIFA another headache...
The 2006 finals were lauded in Germany as a huge success with fans from all the world lapping up the well-organised tournament over four sun-soaked weeks...
BERLIN: Germany's football association promised a package worth millions of euros to secure a crucial vote from disgraced official Jack Warner for its bid to host the 2006 World Cup, Der Spiegel said Friday...
The news magazine -- which in October broke the story alleging Germany bought votes to secure hosting rights for the tournament -- said it has seen a contract detailing perks that the Trinidad and Tobago official and the...
Pakistan all-rounder Anwar Ali, who once ironed socks for a living as a teenage factory labourer, may have finally found his feet in international cricket after years of unfulfilled promise...
“My life was once very tough as I used to work in a sock-making factory but I clung to the dream of playing for Pakistan...
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve is getting close to raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, perhaps in September...
When it meets this week, though, don’t expect any timetable for a rate hike to be spelled out in a post-meeting statement...
BERLIN: German prosecutors said Monday they were looking into, but not yet formally investigating, claims that Germany bribed football officials to win the right to host the 2006 World Cup...
This could happen if we can confirm there is initial cause for suspicion...
ZURICH: The FIFA ethics committee opened a bribery investigation Tuesday into Franz Beckenbauer and other officials from Germany’s 2006 World Cup bid team...
The new case relates to “the 2006 FIFA World Cup host selection and its associated funding,” FIFA ethics prosecutors said in a statement...
MUMBAI: An Indian court Wednesday sentenced five people to death for a series of blasts that ripped through packed trains in Mumbai in 2006, killing nearly 200 people, the Press Trust of India reported...
Read: Indian court finds 12 guilty of 2006 Mumbai train bombingsSeven bombs went off within 15 minutes on the packed trains during the evening rush hour in Mumbai on July 11, 2006...
LARKANA: After a long delay, the Sindh culture department has awarded the contract for resuming the dry core drilling at Moenjodaro, a mandatory requirement of Unesco, to determine the actual areas of the historical site...
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had launched the dry core drilling project on April 5, 2014 which Unesco has been demanding since 2006...